Steam Community Market Enters Beta

Valve introduced the Steam Community Market today, which will expand upon the Steam service and allow players to buy and sell in-game items for Steam Wallet funds.

The Steam Community Market is currently in beta with Team Fortress 2, and will be available for other titles beginning next year. The Market is supposed to expand Steam’s economy beyond the popular trading system, which is currently seeing over 500,000 trades per week, according to Tony Paloma of Valve.